Pitch Me Another!: Dog Days of Summer

After reading Adam Gopnik’s delightful piece on dogs in this week’s issue, we were lucky enough to discover this 1956 ad for swimsuits by Cole in our archive. The ad, which ran in the May 12th issue, elegantly pairs the dogs with their patterned-bathing-suit mates. In a nice twist, the ad ran the same year that Dodie Smith’s children’s novel “The Hundred and One Dalmatians” introduced the world to the dastardly ambitions of one Cruella de Vil. Also in this issue: a short story by James Thurber, a Profile of Giants pitcher Phil Douglas, and a review of the cult science-fiction film “Forbidden Planet.”

Erin Overbey is the chief archivist of The New Yorker. She has been an archivist at the magazine since 1995.